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Oboro. Ro-61. Ro-65. 2 civilians killed, 46 captured (16 died in captivity) The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during ...
Battle of Attu. Part of the Aleutian Islands campaign. U.S. soldiers fire mortar shells over a ridge onto a Japanese position on 4 June 1943. Date. 11–30 May 1943. Japanese holdouts until 8 September 1943. Location. Attu, Aleutian Islands, Territory of Alaska, United States. Result.
The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There. Bison Books. ISBN 0-8032-9557-X. Wetterhahn, Ralph (2004). The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air Campaign. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-7867-1360-7. MacGriggle, George L. Aleutian Islands. The U.S ...
The Japanese occupation of Attu (Operation AL) was the result of an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. Imperial Japanese Army troops landed on 7 June 1942, the day after the invasion of nearby Kiska. Along with the Kiska landing, it was the first time that the continental United States was invaded and occupied by a ...
Designated AHRS. November 24, 1972. The Japanese Occupation Site on Kiska island (along with Attu Island) in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska is where the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked and occupied the island in World War II, as one of the only two enemy invasion sites in North America during the war. The Japanese built ...
Battle of Dutch Harbor. Part of the American Theater of World War II. Buildings burning after Japanese air attacks on Dutch Harbor, circa 3 June 1942. Date. 3-4 June 1942. Location. Amaknak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 53°53′15″N 166°32′32″W / 53.88750°N 166.54222°W / 53.88750; -166.54222. Result.
Adventism. v. t. e. Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi (辰口 信夫, Tatsuguchi Nobuo), sometimes mistakenly referred to as Nebu Tatsuguchi (August 31, 1911 – May 30, 1943), was a Japanese soldier and surgeon who served in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. He was killed during the Battle of Attu on Attu Island, Alaska, United States ...
Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign. On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japanese forces since June 1942. However, the Japanese had secretly abandoned the island two weeks earlier, and so the Allied landings were unopposed.